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Future Sherwood Walmart

Controversy over a new Walmart coming to Sherwood has prompted citizens to push for new regulations and councilors to create a committee giving residents and business owners the power to regulate big box retailers.
(Fenit Nirappil/The Oregonian)

One stat: As many as 9 percent of adult women said they shopped with daughters who are in their 20s, America's Research Group telephone surveys of female respondents in the past year have showed. That figure stood at 3 percent in 2007, before the recession, said Britt Beemer, the researcher's chairman.

The one "Well, duh" statement: "Women also are more likely to be shopping buddies when they live together, said
Candace Corlett, president of New York consulting firm WSL Strategic Retail."

Mostly, it sounds like, the trend emerges because moms have the money!